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FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
children to starve we must run the risk of
leaving them alone for a short time.
" We started in different directions, and we
must have wandered about for a long time, for
daylight was just fading as I reached our tree
and saw my mate approaching also, with a fine
fat rat in her mouth. I scrambled up the tree,
but when halfway up my heart sank within me,
for I heard a flapping of wings, and on looking
anxiously towards the mouth of our hole, I saw
a huge black raven, who was bearing one of our
darlings in his horrid claws, while the tail of
another was protruding from his beak. I made
a frantic effort to reach him, but he only
gulped down the last mouthful of our little one,
and with a hoarse croak flew slowly away,
bearing the other with him. I shall never
forget the night of anguish that followed; my
poor mate was inconsolable, but I sat and
brooded over my sorrow, and determined that
sooner or later I would be revenged on the
fell destroyer of our happiness. Time,
however, which somehow always seems to act as a
healing balm to all afflictions, gradually softened
our grief, but never blunted for an instant my
keen desire for revenge, though for long it
seemed as if I should not be able to gratify it.
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